All things, all at once : new and selected stories / Lee K. Abbott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abbott, Lee K.

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

viii, 365 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2006]

Summary:

Within this collection of short stories are tales about fathers and sons, men and women, and relationships between men. Abbott's perfect pitch for tales of hapless Southwesterners and his way with sympathetic irony records awkward humiliations in lyrical, affectionate language.

Contents:

Ninety nights on Mercury

As fate would have it

Category z

Dreams of distant lives

Gravity

How love is lived in paradise

Love is the crooked thing

Martians

Men of rough persuasion

One of star wars, one of doom

Revolutionaries

Sweet cheeks

The eldest of things

The end of grief

The final proof of fate and circumstance

The talk talked between worms

The human use of inhuman beings

The valley of sin

The view of me from Mars

The way sin is said in wonderland

The who, the what and the why

Whay y was

When our dream world finds us, and these hard times are gone

X.

ISBN:

039306137X

OCLC:

61703923

Publisher Number:

9780393061376